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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 28/09/2026

Missed this session? @jamesward.com shows how SkillsJars lets you version and share agent skills across JVM projects in “Agent Skills for Code Assistants and Custom Agents” at IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/Mc-Lk7sF3ZM

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 08/09/2026

Starting soon at IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026. SkillsJars brings Agent Skills to the JVM ecosystem using JARs and Maven repositories. Agent Skills for Code Assistants and Custom Agents by @jamesward.com 🕑 9:00–10:00 am UTC 👉 youtube.com/live/fi_mGfi... #IntelliJIDEAConf

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IntelliJ IDEA Conf. Day 1

IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 is a free virtual conference for developers working across the JVM ecosystem.Join us on September 8-9 2026, for two days of talks on ...

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 11/08/2026

I'll continue representing Amazon on the Agentic AI Foundation Technical Committee. Building is just so much fun right now! Let me know if there are things you'd like to see us improve with the AWS Agent Experience.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 11/08/2026

This week I moved teams at AWS so that I can focus more on building Agent Experience around the SDKs, CLI, and Docs. I'm super excited to get back a more engineering focused role and enable AWS users to be amazingly productive in their AI agents!

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 15/07/2026

I think skills are more typically used for these kinds of reusable instructions.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 15/07/2026

Super fun session with @maritvandijk.bsky.social about Agent Skills and SkillsJars

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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 14/07/2026

What if AI agent skills were as easy to share as Java libraries? At IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026, @jamesward.com introduces SkillsJars – a new approach to packaging, versioning, and sharing Agent Skills using the familiar Jar and Maven ecosystem. 🗓 September 8–9 👉 Register now: jb.gg/5vx31c

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 02/07/2026

Just improved agent experience in sbt-reload by adding reloadStatus, reloadPause, and reloadResume tasks. Use your AGENTS<dot>md to tell the AI to pause the reloader when making a sequence of changes.

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's all just there @jamesward.com 😁 This is valid Kotlin in 2.4.0 😍 On top of that Kotlin has so many other awesome features to combine this with, and you can write all the code examples from your book effect oriented programming in very elegant ways. You should really give this a proper spin.

Small example showing context parameters with suspend and Arrow-kt's Raise to showcase modern functional programming in Kotlin

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 24/06/2026

Well! Kotlin 2.4 does have something like Effects now. I need @vergauwensimon.bsky.social to explain it to me though :)

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 05/06/2026

I really enjoyed the conversation! Thank you!

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 20/05/2026

Thanks! Yeah, Scala world has gotten a bit quiet. ZIO is so good with AI code assistants. So maybe there will be a resurgence?

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 20/05/2026

Well I cooked up a Scala ZIO library for AI inference with Amazon Bedrock. Took quite a bit of churning to get to an API that I like. Check out the repo: github.com/jamesward/zi... And the full sample: github.com/jamesward/he...

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GitHub - jamesward/zio-bedrock-converse

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Spring I/O @springio.net · 18/05/2026

🍃 Beyond local tools: Deep dive into MCP with Spring AI by @jamesward.com / Maximilian Schellhorn @ Spring I/O 2026 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/gH9bheS0ifU 🔗 Slides: 2026.springio.net/slides/beyon... #springio26

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Beyond local tools: Deep dive into MCP with Spring AI by James Ward / Maximilian Schellhorn

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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 22/04/2026

Is the JVM the best platform for AI agents in 2026? @jamesward.com (AWS, Agentic AI Foundation) makes the case: Spring AI, Embabel, Ktor, MCP, Skills, and why typed languages have a built-in AI advantage. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/ACP0Nx-sW10

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 15/04/2026

Thank you for the kind words!

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 14/04/2026

Super excited to announce the Spring AI Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 1.0 release! This release makes it super easy to deploy Java / Kotlin Spring AI agents on AWS. You can also use AgentCore Memory, Code Interpreter, and Browser either with your agents on AgentCore Runtime or running wherever you want.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 08/04/2026

yeah. i’m not sure if javadocs themselves are mobile friendly but at least my side should probably be. :)

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 07/04/2026

I've made a bunch of Agent Experience enhancements to javadocs.dev More MCP tools, better markdown support - including Accepts: text/markdown, and llms.txt Along the way I built a Scala ZIO HTTP MCP server library: github.com/jamesward/zi... Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 27/03/2026

The ecosystem around Java/JVM AI tech is now pretty vast! With the help of some other Java Champions I put together a list of the Java-related agent frameworks, inference tech, code assistants tools, key people, and the best learning resources: ai4jvm.com

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AI4JVM — Java AI Ecosystem Guide

Your curated guide to the Java AI ecosystem — agent frameworks, inference engines, code assistants, key people, and the best learning resources.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 03/03/2026

This may be a first... We are now distributing the Effect Oriented Programming book via MCP! This brings the knowledge & examples into your AI. Now you can vibe-read instead of actually read. ;) Details: effectorientedprogramming.com/mcp/

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MCP Book - Effect Oriented Programming

A Paradigm for Creating Reliable, Adaptable, Testable Systems - Using Scala and ZIO

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 26/02/2026

I'm super excited to announce skillsjars.com - Agent Skills that are versioned, security scanned, and available in your package manager (via Maven Central). Details on what it is and how to use it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTh1...

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Easy Agent Skills with Spring AI and the new Skillsjars project!

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 26/02/2026

#GOTOpodcast: Effect Oriented Programming W/ Bill Frasure, @bruceeckel.bsky.social, @jamesward.com & @andrewhl.bsky.social What if side effects weren’t something you “handle”… but something you model? Full episode out now 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 26/02/2026

Created my first Agent Skill where I tried to distill my principles for "good code" Check out the "Zen of James" Skill and let me know what I'm missing: github.com/jamesward/sk...

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Devnexus @devnexus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

💥 Build, deploy & scale AI agents! Join @jamesward.com & @starbuxman.joshlong.com at #Devnexus for a full-day, hands-on workshop using Spring AI, MCP, Java, & Amazon Bedrock. devnexus.com/events/hands... Learn RAG, chat memory, & multi-agent systems — all in one session. 🎟️ Tickets- devnexus.com

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 05/02/2026

What most devs get wrong about MCP is thinking that it is primarily for AI code assistants. MCP is primarily useful as an enterprise integration protocol.

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Voxxed Days Amsterdam @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com · 24/12/2025

🎥 Building AI Agents with Spring AI + Amazon Bedrock Curious about how Spring AI and Amazon Bedrock come together to build the next generation of AI agents? 👉 Watch the video announcement from @starbuxman.joshlong.com and @jamesward.com to get a taste of what’s coming. youtube.com/shorts/_4IZi...

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Speaker announcement: Josh Long & James Ward about Spring AI and Amazon Bedrock

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 03/12/2025

Spring AI 1.1 is out with many updates to the MCP support. @starbuxman.joshlong.com, @dashaun.com, and I walked through all the great stuff in our latest Coffee & Software episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAOA...

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Spring AI 1.1 is GA!!

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Devnexus @devnexus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 31/10/2025

If you're interested in learning all about MCP, check out the Deep Dive talk that Maximilian Schellhorn and I did this year at Devoxx: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKs...

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Beyond local tools: Deep dive into MCP by James Ward, Maximilian Schellhorn

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 13/09/2025

This week @starbuxman.joshlong.com and I made two videos on building AI Agents with the latest milestone of Spring AI (Java or Kotlin) and Embabel, using Amazon Bedrock for inference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmEV... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpeY...

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 20/07/2025

I need to investigate running this on the new AgentCore Runtime. In the meantime I just deploy to ECS.

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GOTO Conferences @gotocon.com · 04/07/2025

Structured Concurrency by @jamesward.com: Better cancellation & error handling in concurrent code. Covers Java/Kotlin/Scala approaches. Makes fan-out/fan-in easier! youtu.be/XOSR0Asq4h0?...

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 03/07/2025

There has been a huge gap between the world of AI and enterprises' needs. In episode #112 of Happy Path Programming, @bruceeckel.bsky.social and I chat with Rod Johnson about his Embabel Agent Framework and how it helps improve reliability, cost, and other 'ilities when building agents.

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Devoxx UK @devoxx.uk · 03/06/2025

Learn to keep your apps platform-agnostic, scale efficiently, and optimize deployment using Spring and Testcontainers in @jamesward.com ’s and @mmeckes.bsky.social ’s Devoxx UK 2025 talk "Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: From Containers to Serverless." Watch here - buff.ly/iIlffzZ

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InfoQ @infoq.com · 23/05/2025

Discover how #PklLang is redefining #InfrastructureAsCode! Unlike complex #YAML, Pkl uses schemas & constraints for robust configuration management, catching errors early and providing clear feedback. 🎥 Watch the video by Dan Chao (Software Engineer, Apple): bit.ly/43ptkpm #Kubernetes #IaC

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 21/05/2025

You can use the Ollama models locally. If you do decide to uae Bedrock, check out the pricing and free tier.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 21/05/2025

The actual body of the function is in the sample repo. Just left out for the purpose of the blog since it wasn’t relevant.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 21/05/2025

The Spring AI 1.0 release is a total game changer for millions of developers, enabling them to easily integrate AI & MCP into their Java & Kotlin systems! Check out my blog about why this release is so monumental: community.aws/content/2xLk...

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Spring AI 1.0 Brings AI to the Developer Masses

Spring AI 1.0 has been released, enabling millions of developers to quickly and easily add AI to their Java and Kotlin systems.

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 16/05/2025

Here is the recording of the "Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: From Containers to Serverless" presentation that @mmeckes.bsky.social and I did at @devoxx.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kgN...

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Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: From Containers to Serverless by James Ward & Matthew Meckes

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 14/05/2025

This could go badly, but I've deployed a public MCP server for testing purposes. Built with Spring AI & Kotlin. Try it out: mcp-test.jamesward.com Code: github.com/jamesward/he...

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A basic MCP server for testing - Built with Spring AI & Kotlin

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 12/05/2025

Of course you can build a multi-turn MCP-based Agent on top of Amazon Bedrock Converse and the MCP Java SDK, just with a lot more code than abstractions (Spring AI, Quarkus, Langchain4j, etc). Here's the code: github.com/aws-samples/...

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Sample-Model-Context-Protocol-Demos/modules/java-mcp-bedrock-agent at main · aws-samples/Sample-Model-Context-Protocol-Demos

Collection of examples of how to use Model Context Protocol with AWS. - aws-samples/Sample-Model-Context-Protocol-Demos

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 30/04/2025

Them: "You can build a multi-turn AI Agent connected to MCP servers in only 50 lines of code" Spring AI: Hold my beer, now watch this:

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